[TriLUG] SB Live! audio card recognition

[jwheeler at etherealfringe.com]

Hey guys,

I have an older box running xUbuntu Dapper with an SB Live! audio card
installed. For some reason I am getting this strange result from lspci:

0000:00:14.0 VGA compatible unclassified device: Creative Labs SB Live!
EMU10k1 (rev 08)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs CT4832 SBLive! Value
        Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
        Region 0: I/O ports at 1000 [disabled] [size=32]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

0000:00:14.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game
Port (rev 08)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs Gameport Joystick
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64
        Region 0: I/O ports at fff0 [size=8]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-



It's calling it a VGA unclassified device and saying that the I/O is
disabled for some reason. I can't figure out why. I have the ALSA emu10k1
drivers installed (snd-emu10k1). They seem to be set up correctly, maybe
I'm missing something. But as far as I can tell the card is not being
recognized as an audio interface by the system at all.

This card was supposed to be well supported with the ALSA drivers.

Any ideas as to how I could help it become recognized as a Multimedia
device? I don't completely understand how all of this works. Any insights
at all would be great.

lsmod | grep snd

snd_emu10k1_synth       7296  0
snd_emu10k1           117284  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_emux_synth         37376  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi         7680  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul       7168  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_dummy           3844  0
snd_seq_oss            33536  0
snd_seq_midi            9376  0
snd_seq_midi_event      7552  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                51984  9
snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_rawmidi            25504  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi
snd_ac97_codec         93088  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_bus            2304  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            53664  0
snd_mixer_oss          18688  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                89864  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_device          8716  8
snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer              25220  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         10632  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem            4608  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth
snd_hwdep               9376  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth
snd                    55268  13
snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore              10208  3 sb_lib,sound,snd

-John